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Confused on EX6200v2 WiFi Extender extending 2G and 5G home networks
This is for AC1200 WiFi Range Extender, Model EX6200v2 For my new FIOS Router I have a Home-2G, Home-5G, and Home-Guest (which is 2.4G). The WiFi Extender works fine, but their networks are Home-2...
Hi williampeck1958,
You can try accessing the extenders' UI to verify all the wireless settings and confirm the SSID (WiFi name) of the 5GHz band. You can check page 23 of the user manual linked below.
http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/EX6200/EX6200_UM_EN.pdf
Regards,
Dexter
Community Team
Hi williampeck1958,
You can try accessing the extenders' UI to verify all the wireless settings and confirm the SSID (WiFi name) of the 5GHz band. You can check page 23 of the user manual linked below.
http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/EX6200/EX6200_UM_EN.pdf
Regards,
Dexter
Community Team
Dexter, great, thank you! I logged on to www.mywifiext.net. So I see the name for the 5G network and working on changing that now. It's doing a firmware update.
Will check back after this completes.